Backend Engineer - Product Eligibility

Wise; Greater London; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wise Benefits

London office

Job summary

Wise is hiring for a role within the Product Eligibility team to build and scale the platform supporting Transfer, Payout and Partner Integrations. You will help determine product eligibility and what customers can access, while shaping a robust, scalable backend used across Wise London and beyond.

You will work in an autonomous team, collaborating with product managers and engineers to deliver domain-level solutions, improve APIs, and optimise data models.

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Years of Java 8+ knowledge.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas.
• Strong product mindset focused on customer experience; data-driven decisions.
• Collaborative, able to bring people together to solve problems.
• Experience designing, deploying and maintaining RESTful APIs.
• Follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback.
• Enjoy writing testable code; belief in Test Driven Development.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical vision for the owned domain and contribute to the platform.
• Scale the transfer product with back-office tooling and customer flows.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers across London and Cherkasy.

Skills

Java 8+

Distributed systems

Databases (SQL/NoSQL)

RESTful APIs

Test Driven Development

Product mindset

Collaboration

Tools

Spring Boot

Kafka

Job description

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.
As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.

Job Description

More about our mission and what we offer.
Product Eligibility team is a fairly new team that was formed under Regional Platform Squad. We are one of the longest-running squads in the company building the platform for the core domains of Wise - Transfer, Payout and Partner Integrations. Besides that we are supporting product teams to extend the Platform capabilities for the new products and the new markets.
Product Eligibility team's main goal is to help Wise accurately determine which products and features are available to a particular customer.
To achieve this, we need to make sure we have a clear understanding of where our customers reside or operate business. As such, one of the first big challenges the team will tackle is overhauling of how Wise captures and validates customer's residence, present location and address information.

How We Work

We work in an agile fashion, with engineers closely collaborating with the product manager, and the analyst. The team operates across our London and Cherkasy offices.
What will you be working on?
You will be part of an autonomous team, driving the technical vision for the owned domain. Contributing to the platform, back office tooling and episodically to the customer-facing flows. You will help us scale-up and build a world class transfer product.

What do you need?

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more, we do want to hear from you!

• You have experience working with large scale distributed systems
• You have years of Java 8+ knowledge
• You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation and designing schemas
• You have a strong product mindset and passion for customer experience, you prioritise work with the customers in mind and make data-driven decisions to fix customer pain-points
• You enjoy collaborating with others and bringing people together to solve a problem
• You have experience in designing, deploying and maintaining clean RESTful APIs
• You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
• You enjoy writing testable code and believe in Test Driven Development

Nice To Have

• You have experience with Spring boot
• You have experience with Kafka
• You have worked with BFFs (Backend-for-Frontends)

Interested? Find out more:

• How we work – a practical guide
• DEI @ Wise
• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)
• See what it's like to work at Wise London!
• Our Engineering career map
• Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What Do We Offer

• Starting salary: £68,000 - £87,500
• Wise Benefits

Additional Information

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
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